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| ISBN: | 9780817380939
0817380930
0817315683
9780817315689
9780817315689
0817315683
9780817354282
081735428X
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-297) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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| Summary: | Modern Westerners say the lights in the sky are stars, but culturally they are whatever we humans say they are. Some say they are Forces that determine human lives, some declare they are burning gaseous masses, and some see them as reminders of a gloried past by which elders can teach and guide the young - mnemonics for narratives. Lankford's volume focuses on the ancient North Americans and the ways they identified, patterned, ordered, and used the stars to light their culture and illuminate their traditions. They knew them as regions that could be visited by human spirits, and so the lig.
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| Other form: | Print version: Lankford, George E., 1938- Reachable stars. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2007 9780817315689 0817315683
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| Standard no.: | 9780817315689
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